Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 13 shown for “Thorald Læssøe” — 41 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 10:42 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Sunny Street at Tivoli
Thorald Læssøe · 1846

Echium vulgare L.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 1883

Rhytachne rottboellioides Desv.
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1948
Plukenetia volubilis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Apr 1983
Malvaviscus concinnus Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1983

Mutisia microcephala Sodiro ex Cabrera
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1985

Joseanthus cuatrecasasii H. Rob.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 May 1983

Browneopsis ucayalina (Huber) Ducke
Artist not stated in the record

Chrysochlamys tenuifolia Cuatrec.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Feb 1983

Miconia erioclada Triana
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1983

Leonia glycycarpa Ruiz & Pav. var. glycycarpa
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Feb 1983

Coreopsis capillacea Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · 13 May 1983

Verbesina sodiroi Hieron.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1983
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 53 matched · 40 examined · 13 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 10:42 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.